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Test 7 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

A family's car breaks down on a freeway in Texas. Why should the children not walk along it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, children · What happens: break down, not walk · To what, where: freeway

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 267 «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A family's car breaks down on a freeway in Texas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 car	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 family	case
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	nsubj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 breaks	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 freeway	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 freeway	det
9	freeway	freeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Texas	case
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 freeway	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 breaks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	a family's car			a freeway in Texas			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Why should the children not walk along it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walk	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 walk	advmod
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	along	along	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walk	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	should	the children			freeway			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory

The options

Option 1

The road is too hot for shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the road					for shoes; hot property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cars go very fast there and walking is not allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 go	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 allowed	cc
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 allowed	advmod
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Cars			there		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not allow	present · passive		walking					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3

It is too far to the next town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 far	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 far	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to the next town; far property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They might get lost among the many signs along the freeway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 signs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 signs	det
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 signs	amod
8	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 freeway	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 freeway	det
11	freeway	freeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might · passive		They				among the many signs; along the freeway	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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